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March 27, 2014

If You Are Seeking Some Sneering, Condescending Stupidity...

Patterico busts the Juice Voxers for misrepresenting the US national debt but lets them off easy for their sneering, condescending tone. Let me put it this way - the video in question sounds as if it was narrated by PajamaBoy. And maybe it was.

Left unanswered by the Juice Voxers - if the US national debt equals the debt held by the public, at $12.5 trillion, why do we have these scuffles about the debt ceiling, currently at $17.2 trillion? (Hint: The Social Security trust assets are a big part of the difference).

And when did debt held by the Social Security Trust Fund lose its sacrosanct status in the progressive catechism? Geez, I can remember when Bush wanted to reform Social security back in 2005, the progressive screaming point was that the trust fund debt was utterly comparable to Treasury debt, even though it is not. To be fair, maybe the catechism changed when Obama decided to ignore the fact that the Social Security trust assets are already included in the debt ceiling and pretended that failing to raise the debt ceiling would jeopardize payments to grannies and grandpas.

"6 Million"-- a driveby number that means nothing. The most recent million, who has actually paid? matters not, Obummer will just waive the payment requirement and 'deem' them insured. It's a sick joke.

Takes a small mind to cite the trollish Patterico for anything, let alone his idiotic forest-for-the-trees argument here. Add on the disengenuous way he responded to Klein and one wonders if he needs meds

Congrats TomM-- this is a very apt post about the madness of the Debt that the Dems have created during the past 5 years, and the pitiful lies they tell to mischaracterize the civilization destroying nature of the Debt. You nail one such lie -- somehow SS Trust Fund Debt is debt for GWB, but not debt for ObummerPhones and Medicaid payments. Things like Klein and Iglesias are disgusting hacks taking Soros money, filthy lucre if there ever was, to lie to Millenials. When the Debt Bomb fully detonates, the Millenials will string up Klein and Iglesias, rightly so.

Note that this latest troll offers no substantive defense of Yglesias, and no substantive refutation of Patterico. In particular, he does not deny that the very first words out of Yglesias's mouth are wrong.

Agreed on the forest for the trees argument.
The larger problem is Yglesias's preposterous argument that because inflation is low [tell that to anyone buying luxury items like food and energy] and raising taxes or cutting spending are bad [correct on the former, wrong on the latter] therefore debt isn't a problem....right now.

A guy who pulls the pin on a hand grenade and then sets it in his lap doesn't have a problem either....right now.

Of perhaps more significance, however, is that only one poll, conducted in August against Treadwell, showed Begich reaching 50 percent. If the old rule is still in force -- the rule that says that an incumbent polling under 50 percent is in trouble -- then Begich has been threatened all along...

"Dr. Corsi confirms he was just in England working with British intel advisor Michael Shrimpton. Mr. Shrimpton claims the CIA has DNA evidence on Obama and that Obama wasborn in Kenya. Dr. Corsi also reports he met with Lord Christopher Monckton and he's prepared to take the Obama birth certificate challenge to court"

"Bush’s 2001 tax cuts was the first time the budget reconciliation process had ever been used for a bill that increased the deficit. Ever. Democrats were appalled. When they retook the Congress, both the House and the Senate passed a rule barring reconciliation from being used for bills that increased the deficit.

"The product, of course, is that Democrats can’t use reconciliation for bills that increase the deficit. But it goes beyond even that: A number of powerful congressional Democrats really care about the deficit. So too do a number of powerful White House economic advisers. They’ve decided that balancing the bill in the 10-year window, as the House Democrats do, isn’t sufficient. They want it balanced beyond the 10-year window, too.

"It’s all very responsible, and very good policy, but it means the Obama White House has committed itself to two incredibly stringent conditions the Bush White House avoided: finding sufficient revenues for their programs, and finding the kind of revenue that keeps pace with the spending in their programs over the long-term. That makes their job a lot harder."

Why do you even read these twits? Just as ol Satchel Page said "the social ramble ain't restful", reading these two clowns will only get you upset. Little Mattie and Ezra are living proof of the maxim that ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.

When Bryant was asked by the author of the article what he thought of the Miami Heat’s show of solidarity with Martin -- the team posed in hooded jackets like the one Martin was wearing the night he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in a Sanford, Fla., neighborhood -- Bryant said he didn't see how such support showed any "progress."

"So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

The website about the $700,000 Climate Change Musical (The Great Immensity) says It is a thrilling and timely production...a highly theatrical look into one of the most vital questions of our time: how can we change ourselves and our society in time to solve the enormous environmental challenges that confront us?

If you click here, you can hear one of the Show Stopping Tunes from the production: Margin of Error

Rodgers and Hammerstein they ain't, and from the look and sound of it, production wise, I think our line dancing IRS agents in Star Trek outfits probably gave us a better bang for our Federal buck.

"NLRB ruling on NU football targets endowment more than rights. Shakowsky driven excercise in search of greater District Cash Sources. Evanston has long lusted to be able to tax largest land holder. Just the latest ploy.

Also signals the sense of desperation for cash flows on that side of the aisle."

ukraine-asks-obama-for-military-assistance-instead-he-offers-food-rations/...Maybe if they throw it at the tanks;

Narciso,

I'm thinking this Administration is probably considering funding some Ukranian theatrical production about the Russian takeover of Crimea as our next stern move against Putin. Fiddler On The Roof--This time, it's for keeps! That'll show 'em.

And having listened to that tune again from The Great Immensity, I think I can safely say that if these poor b@#$tards had chosen to Fund The Great Immensity instead of Springtime For Hitler, their money losing scheme would have worked like a charm.

The harassment of the Koch brothers is also frightening to contemplate. Once upon a time, meaning before 2009, American government officials did not publicly harass American private citizens using the full force of the state.

The really really disturbing part is that this is going to be par for the course for every Dem administration for the rest of history, assuming we survive this one.

Why not here? Well, there is no actual evidence. Speculation, innuendo, belief, are not evidence. Attacking a PDF of a birth certificate does not begin to prove Obama was not born in America. Get me some credible Kenyan records. Photos. Newspaper clippings. Witnesses.

Damn. I was making a joke and I've been drawn in. Oh, well. What's a day without this fight?

I already supplied the perfect title and premise at 4:33; nerdy grifter comes to town selling a pipe dream to sucker the yokels out of their money.
All we need now is some inspired casting.
I propose this guy for Michael Mann;

SAN FRANCISCO – Beneath the strings of red paper lanterns and narrow alleyways of the nation's oldest Chinatown lies an underworld, a place with a history of opium dens, gambling houses and gangland murders.

Federal investigators say it's also where Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow operated a criminal empire while projecting a public image of community servant.

Peyton Manning again demonstrating he's a cut above most other athletes. His one demand when leaving the Colts to sign with a new team; that he NOT make more money than Tom Brady.
He apparently was ticked when the Broncos offered him more anyway and nearly didn't sign with them.

When the Yee news broke, local talk radio had a guest on (some long-time Sacramento political reporter) who predicted more FBI stuff on the way. He said there has been an intense FBI investigation going on for 6 months now in Orange County.

That got my spidey sense twitching, because Orange County is considered quite Republican.

Hey, Charlotte is not yet a blue hell---more like Detroit, circa 1962.
On our way, after Anthony Fox and Patrick Cannon, but before that we had 14 years of Republican now Gov. Pat McCory keeping our City Council on task.

Anthony Fox did leave us behind to take that Secretary of Transportation job. Very well qualified, as we do have buses and one track of light rail. Had something to do with hosting the Democratic Convention and forgiving the debt, I do believe.